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Photography10 quotes
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. — Dorothea Lange · 1982I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied. — Julia Margaret Cameron · 1874Photography is truth and cinema is truth twenty-four times a second. — Bruno Forestier · 1963So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful. — Susan Sontag · 1977Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us. — Susan Sontag · 2003I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight! — Louis Daguerre · 1825All 10 quotes →Beauty2 quotes
I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied. — Julia Margaret Cameron · 1874So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful. — Susan Sontag · 1977Art1 quote
I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied. — Julia Margaret Cameron · 1874Light1 quote
I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight! — Louis Daguerre · 1825Medium is the message1 quote
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. — Dorothea Lange · 1982Movies1 quote
Photography is truth and cinema is truth twenty-four times a second. — Bruno Forestier · 1963Purpose of art1 quote
The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself. — Edward Steichen · 1972Standards of beauty1 quote
So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful. — Susan Sontag · 1977Stories1 quote
Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us. — Susan Sontag · 2003